Awards & Ratings

Bettane + Desseauve Award 15/20

Ecocert Label - Organic Farming Label

Natural & Biodynamic Wine

RVF Revue du Vin de France Award 17/20

Tasting Note

Fruity, intense, blackcurrant, black fruit, liquorice aromas at the nose. Fruity, powerful, velvety, violet overtones, stewed fruit and spice hints, fine and round tannin, structured body, good intensity, long length. VILLA MINNA wines are powerful, greedy, full bodied with a stunning complexity of flavours and aromas, and with a great capacity to improve with age.

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Optimal Temperature:

Best enjoyed between 15° & 18°

Optimal Period:

Ideally drink now & before 2030

color

Garnet

Mahogany

Purple

Ruby

Tile

flavor

Fruity

Toasted

Flower

Mineral

Spices

Vegetal

Woody

Others

taste

Fruity

Toasted

Flower

Mineral

Spices

Vegetal

Woody

Others

Food Pairing

Shanghai Braised Pork Knuckle, Beijing Duck, Sichuan Mapo Tofu

Pork with Mustard, Veal Chops, Turkey

Origin Producer

France

Over the last several hundred years, France has been the most influential country in the wine world. France is the source of more well-known grape varieties (such as Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Sauvignon Blanc and Syrah) and winemaking practices than any other country. The names of many French wine regions such as Bordeaux, Burgundy and Champagne are well-known throughout the world, and the style of top French wines have long been the benchmark for winemaking in most wine-producing countries of the world.

French law divides wine into 3 categories: VDF (Vin De France) carries with it only the producer and the designation that it is from France. IGP (Indication Géographique Protégée) carries with it a specific region within France (for example IGP Languedoc). AOC (Appellation d'Origine Controlee) Wine from a particular area with many other restrictions, including grape varieties & winemaking methods.

Provence

Provence wine comes from the French wine-producing region of Provence in southeast France. The Romans called the area “nostra provincia” (our province), giving the region its name. Just south of the Alps, it was the first Roman province outside Italy. Today the region is known predominately for its rosé wine, though wine critics believe that region's best wines are the spicy, full-flavored red wines. Rosé wine currently accounts for more than half of the production of Provençal wine, with red wine accounting for about a third of the region's production.

VILLA MINNA VINEYARD's wines are powerfull, greedy and full bodied with a stunning complexity of flavours and aromas, and with a great capacity to improve with age. They are released on the market five years after the harvest for the red wines and three years for the whites.

Family owned since 1929.

VILLA MINNA VINEYARD consists of 15 hectares of vines in South-Eastern France between Aix-en-Provence and Salon-de-Provence, with Mount Sainte-Victoire to the east and the Alpilles to the west, the beautiful mountains whose southern colours were an inspiration to the impressionist painters Paul Cezanne and Vincent Van Gogh.

The vineyard has two main slopes: one north-facing and one south-facing; this terroir of hills and garrigues made up of limestone formations characterized by numerous fossils enables the vines to express their full aromatic potential.

VILLA MINNA vineyard is planted with Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon, Mourvèdre, Caladoc and Marselan for the red wines, and Vermentino, Roussanne and Marsanne for the whites; the varieties have been selected for optimal quality. The vineyard is managed according to an environmentally friendly approach, with the Nutrition Méditerranéenne en Provence charter, and a commitment to respecting organic production methods. Yields are extremely low in order to comply with an approach that prioritizes quality.

VILLA MINNA VINEYARD subscribes to the Nutrition Méditerranéenne en Provence charter and to the organic agriculture, a philosophy which has always been part of the way we work.

Since the vintage 2012, wines of VILLA MINNA VINEYARD are certified ORGANIC ECOCERT.

We do not use herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers. The vineyard soil is ploughed. We encourage the auxiliary fauna and natural predators.

We grind up the cuttings after pruning and plough them back into the soil to return the nutrients to the vines.

We keep treatments to a strict minimum, giving preference to preventive measures, such as trellising, in order to achieve a large leaf area and good ventilation around the bunches of grapes.

Our yields are extremely low at around 25 hectolitres per hectare, as a result of close pruning, careful removal of non-fruiting buds and green harvests during the summer, depending on the grape variety and the numbers of bunches.

Maturing takes place in an underground cellar, protected from temperature fluctuations, in oak barrels on fine lees with regular « bâtonnage » for 24 months for the MINNA VINEYARD Rouge.

This method, which preserves the freshness of the flavours, gives naturally clear wines with great aromatic complexity.

The free-run and press wines for each variety are then blended to obtain a harmonious, balanced final wine. The wine is lightly filtered in our cellars before bottling, to preserve all of its personality.